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- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
When does a star performer become a corporate nightmare? And what can you do about it? HBS Working Knowledge's Mallory Stark conducted this e-mail interview with Morten Hansen.Stark: Can you describe what you mean by "lone... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
research. What's more, firms that correlate their international trading activity with the local ethnic community significantly outperform those that don't—a fact that has escaped notice of financial analysts. The findings could help Wall Street make better earnings... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
economies, many business enterprises defy traditional industry boundaries. In this study, we evaluate six "big data" approaches to peer firm identifications and show that some, but not all, "wisdom-of-crowd" techniques perform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in experience on multiple measures of performance for software development projects. In most cases, we do not find evidence of a significant main... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
Performance By: Li, Shelley Xin, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations empower frontline employees to experiment with different ways to meet diverse customer needs across different locations. We conducted a field... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
you don't model the importance of sweating the details. Downturns expose the weaknesses in your internal systems, observes Chuang. Technical expertise—the ability to solve cash flow problems, interpret what customers are really saying, or set up View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
required by that framing. We don't pretend to have all the answers to this vexing problem, but examining what sets the winners apart does offer some provisional lessons. Separate for better performance. Across the newspaper industry, high View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
antagonists in a tug-of-war. They tend to focus on regulating workers’ behavior, often putting a damper on commitment, innovation, and performance without realizing it. But freedom and control aren’t zero sum, argues the author. By giving... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed workplaces and innovative social distancing designs. But how will companies, workers, and customers have confidence that these new measures will actually be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
India. "The case raises an uncomfortable question: Why should Monitor pay a Harvard MBA top dollar to conduct business research in the United States while an Indian Institute of Management graduate could do the work just as effectively in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
greater benefit than verification effects to the performance of diverse groups. Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units Authors:A. Tucker,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008
how to manage up; Cultivate a mutually beneficial relationship with your manager; Communicate effectively with your boss about priorities and problems; and Negotiate win-win solutions to on-the-job challenges with your supervisor.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
At the HBS Executive Education program Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations (BCAO), executives charged with leading and building operations and manufacturing strategies enhance their understanding of operations performance... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
effect of greater rivalry dominates for less uncertain problems whereas the effect on the extreme value prevails for more uncertain problems. Adding competitors thus systematically increases overall contest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
what can be done to reverse that trend. In doing so, they take aim at some misconceptions about what keeps voters home, and show the surprising effectiveness of door-to-door canvassing at getting more people to the polls. Voting is not... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
mechanisms by which multinational activity might create positive effects and externalities to countries and the role of complementary local conditions, also known as “absorptive capacities,” that allow a country to reap the benefits of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience revealed differences in how the branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) prepare leaders for business. Those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16
(forthcoming) Abstract We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016
and lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of considering dynamic effects in the economic analysis of tort laws. Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne